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Marie Knight Dies At 84; Gospel Vocalist Sang with Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Marie Knight was best known for her gospel duets with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, including “Up Above My Head” and “Didn’t It Rain.” She toured with the gospel legend in the late 1940s and made a late-in-life comeback as a solo artist. (Patricia De Gorostarzu)
Marie Knight, a gospel singer who came to fame singing duets with [...]

Will Juanita Bynum’s High-Profile Domestic Violence Incident Impact Women in the Church?

 Evangelist and gospel singer Juanita Bynum, who was involved in a high-profile domestic violence incident and has filed for divorce as a result, said she would focus her ministry on helping victims of domestic violence.
In an interview Wednesday on “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Bynum said she had been in abusive relationships in the past [...]

For ‘prophetess’ of True Romance, Marriage A Mess

 With each sheet she wrapped around her body that day, the crowd roared for “Prophetess” Juanita Bynum.
At the singles’ conference, sponsored by fellow evangelist T.D. Jakes, Bynum spoke to her audience in plain, smoky-nightclub language about her battle with the flesh and her longing for a husband. The bedsheets represented all the empty sex she’d [...]

Charges Against Husband Put New Focus on Televangelist

 Juanita Bynum is known and admired by thousands as a fiery evangelist whose no-nonsense, lead-by-less-than-perfect-example message of self-improvement was seemingly illustrated by her fairy-tale marriage to a man who also is a widely known minister.
The romance, which included a million-dollar wedding, became a nightmare last week when Thomas W. Weeks III was charged with choking [...]

Accused Husband of Televangelist Juanita Bynum Preaches Sunday

 
The minister husband of televangelist and gospel singer Juanita Bynum took the pulpit at his church just two days after surrendering to authorities on charges he beat his wife.
Thomas W. Weeks III, known to his followers as Bishop Weeks, faces charges of aggravated assault and making “terroristic” threats in a confrontation outside a hotel Aug. [...]

Televangelist Bynum Assaulted in Atlanta

Police said Juanita Bynum, a televangelist who has won a national following with sermons about women’s empowerment, was assaulted by her preacher husband in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel early Wednesday.

Bynum and her estranged husband, Thomas W. Weeks III, the founder of Global Destiny churches, met at Renaissance Concourse Hotel near Atlanta’s airport [...]